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Barney Davis

Buckingham Palace reject request to repatriate Prince Alemayehu’s body to Ethiopia

Buckingham Palace has rejected a request to unearth the bones of a 19th Century Ethiopian Prince buried at Windsor Castle.

Prince Alemayehu, died an orphan in London, aged 18, after being taken back to the United Kingdom by Victorian explorer Captain Tristram Speedy in a journey that killed his mother.

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